Dell PowerVault ML6000 - Manual (Page 235)

Chapter 12 Installing, Removing, and Replacing
Cabling the Library
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The nearest FC I/O blade is usually located in the same expansion
module as the tape drive.
You will need to provide fibre cables long enough to connect a host or a
SAN switch to a target port on an FC I/O blade.
It is important to consider how drives are assigned to partitions when
cabling tape drives and hosts to an FC I/O blade. If you want a host to be
able to communicate with a tape drive that is assigned to a particular
partition, both the drive and the host that has access to the partition
should communicate through the same FC I/O blade.
The following table provides an example of an ML6030 Control Module
plus two ML600 9U Expansion Modules with FC I/O blade-attached tape
drives. The information next to the image shows each tape drive and the
FC I/O blade and port to which each tape drive is connected.